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Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research

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Title Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research
 
Creator Meinzen-Dick, Ruth Suseela
Rubin, Deborah
Elias, Marlène
Mulema, Annet A.
Myer, Emily
 
Subject women
gender
livestock
agriculture
 
Description There is growing recognition of the importance of women’s empowerment in its own right and for a range of development outcomes, but less understanding of what empowerment means to rural women and men. The challenge of measuring empowerment, particularly across cultures and contexts, is also garnering attention. This paper synthesizes qualitative research conducted conjointly with quantitative surveys, working with eight agricultural development projects in eight countries, to develop a project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI). The qualitative research sought to identify emic meanings of “empowerment,” validate the domains and indicators of the quantitative index, provide greater understanding of the context of each project and of strategies for facilitating empowerment, and test a methodology for integrating emic perspectives of empowerment with standardized etic measures that allow for comparability across contexts.
 
Date 2019-01-15
2019-02-22T14:08:44Z
2019-02-22T14:08:44Z
 
Type Working Paper
 
Identifier Meinzen-Dick, R., Rubin, D., Elias, M., Mulema, A. and Myers, E. 2019. Women’s empowerment in agriculture: Lessons from qualitative research. IFPRI Discussion Paper 01797. Washington, D.C.: IFPRI.
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99534
 
Language en
 
Relation IFPRI Discussion Paper
 
Rights CC-BY-4.0
Open Access
 
Format application/pdf
 
Publisher International Food Policy Research Institute